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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I pushed this patch.  Thanks.  I noticed it only effects the move
operation so I don't know if many users will notice the change.  I'm
wondering if it wouldn't have been better to disambiguate all operations
when selecting a sheet pin.  That's a discussion for another day.

On 9/6/2016 1:03 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Here's a patch, have a look at it, and if you're okay with the
> limitation I mentioned feel free to commit :)
> 
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 06:35:54PM -0400, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>> I haven't tested it yet as I haven't written the patch yet. However, it
>> is possible to select the sheet by grabbing its label, and eeschema does
>> not allow sheet pins to be placed over labels, so the label should
>> always be accessible.
>>
>> I suppose you could force it, if you really tried, into a state where
>> the sheet cannot be directly selected, by putting the sheet pin as high
>> as it will go and then setting the text size very large so it overlaps
>> everything. I don't see a problem with that though. It pretty much has
>> to be deliberate, and you can still fix it by either setting the size
>> back down, or using block select to pick up the sheet.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 06:24:03PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>> I'm OK with this.  By chance did you test it with a really small sheet
>>> size just to make sure that you can still select the sheet?  That's the
>>> only potential issue I can see.
>>>
>>> On 9/5/2016 11:13 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>>>> The disambiguation menu makes it absolutely tedious to move a large
>>>> number of hierarchical sheet pins. Would a patch be accepted to make
>>>> hierarchical sheet pins automatically preferred when the items under the
>>>> cursor are only a sheet pin or a sheet?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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